Category Archives: Announcements

Please Help with Amateur Radio Parity Act

Posted on by

HR-1301

While NCRC is doing things to rectify this, sadly the demographic of our club is mostly aging hams.  As we get older, we find ourselves making changes to our lifestyle.  Often this involves moving to a townhouse, or into an area that has restrictive covenants that prevent the erection of antennas.

We don’t have to tell you that we are a national resource that is an essential part of our countries emergency response.  But more hams go of the air each year simply because antennas are forbidden where they live.

HR-1301 is an act before the House that would make provide some insulation between restrictive homeowner covenants and hams — it would ensure that accommodations could be made for antennas.

As we all look upon this last winter and dream of warmer locations, keep in mind that all of those popular retirement locations prevent the erection of antennas.  Florida hams have an almost impossible situation, for example.  Please go to www.arrl.org/hr-1301 for information on how you can help.  This isn’t a solicitation for donations, but a description of the simple steps you can take to help Congress so we can help the nation.

NCRC Meeting Monday March 9 at 7 PM

Posted on by

With what passes for beautiful warm weather to snowbound New Englanders, please be aware that our regular NCRC meeting WILL be held tonight, Monday March 9th, at 7 PM at KVH.

We are delighted that we were able to reschedule our February speaker to tonight.  Rob Vincent, K1DFT, will be giving a presentation on his “Distributed-Load Monopole” antenna design.

Next ECTTC Class Starts March 3

Posted on by

John King, WA1ABI, has announced the next Emergency Communications Technician Training Course (ECCTC) will begin at 7 PM on Tuesday March 3rd.  This class will be held on seven consecutive Tuesdays at the Portsmouth EOC.  The course is open to all licensed Amateur radio operators. Preference is given to residents of Newport County, but enrollment is open to all Amateur operators on a space available basis.

This training course equips the student with the knowledge and skills needed to serve as an Emergency Communicator in an Emergency Operations Center, a Red Cross evacuation shelter, or a Medical Emergency Distribution System Point of Dispensing. These skills are applicable to operations in many other public safety emergency communications venues. No prior knowledge of public safety or emergency communications is assumed or required. See the course syllabus for information on the subject areas covered in this course.

More details can be found in this document